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1) You recently signed a deal with Macromedia to help improve Flash, what work have you done here so far and how do you feel Flash needs to be improved to be more usable, do you still dislike it?

2) How do you think the best way to balance a good looking design with something that is usable?

3) Which sites do you think offer a great level of usability and still keep a good looking design?

4) Do you think good design needs to be sacrificed so that a site is usable? Should the designers even care about the site looking good and just concentrate on usability like your own personal site(useit.com)?

5) What do you think of the stick you get from many designers?

and if you don't want him to ever talk to Sitepoint again ask him...

6) Why does your site look like it was designed by a five year old? :P

2) Do you put your pants on one-leg-at-a-time, like the rest of us? Or is there a more usable method we're missing?

3) What changes would you make to the NFL to make the game of football easier to understand?

4) You're at Denny's with your family when a waiter drops his tray, a blueberry pie landing on your brand new white shirt. What is your reaction?

5) Seriously... as input devices, the keyboard and the mouse are both hard-to-use and lead to repetitive-motion ailments. Speech recognitions aside, what ideas do you have that could make computers more "usable" devices?

I have a question

How much money have you made selling books and opinions which are really nothing more than common sense?

Seriously though...

Did I mention that I am a usability expert too? Here's some advice....

1) Make sure your site maintains a consistent look so your visitors won't be confused (a good idea is to make sure you have your logo on all pages so visitors don't think that they are at the Wal Mart site...

2) Label your navigation sensibly (eg. If you have an employment page call it "jobs" instead of "login"...

3) Don't use any graphics because you should really be concerned that 1 visitor in a million has a 14.4 modem...

Next week I will deconstruct Jakob Nielsen's lame site and will publish my findings in a book entitled "Self-important experts guide to 1996 web standards: making the web a boring exercise in academia"

In your book "Homepage Usability" you berate websites for having a link (image or text) to the homepage, on the homepage. With this fast becoming the norm, and with no public outcries from accessibility groups, isn't this just a case of being 'too niggly'?

I have one. You sell an excellent PDF with 200+ tips for usability studies, and post Alertbox columns about how 5 users is enough for usability testing, but I'm personally yet to find a good "step-by-step" tutorial on how to actually conduct usability studies. Can you point out any good resources on this topic?

How important should the site in questions target audience be when identifying specific usability problems. - Is there a broad "usability-blanket" that can be thrown over any website in terms of usability? - or, should each site be completely unique in terms of judgement and criticisms, based on who the target audience is.

When you conduct a usability report on any particular internet site, is it pitched at "the average person"? - if so, how would you describe an average internet user, in terms of what you think they're looking for.